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Hiroshi Sugimoto — Rockefeller Center
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Rockefeller Center

A hauntingly luminous black-and-white photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto, this gelatin silver print captures a movie theater's grand interior bathed in an ethereal, otherworldly glow. Using his signature long-exposure technique, Sugimoto allows the entirety of a film's projected light to collapse into a single, radiant white rectangle on the screen, dissolving narrative into pure light. The result is a meditative image that transforms an architectural space into a timeless vessel of memory and perception.

Medium
Gelatin silver print.

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April 3, 2013

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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Rockefeller Center

A hauntingly luminous black-and-white photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto, this gelatin silver print captures a movie theater's grand interior bathed in an ethereal, otherworldly glow. Using his signature long-exposure technique, Sugimoto allows the entirety of a film's projected light to collapse into a single, radiant white rectangle on the screen, dissolving narrative into pure light. The result is a meditative image that transforms an architectural space into a timeless vessel of memory and perception.

Medium
Gelatin silver print.
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Photography, 20th Century, Male Artist, Conceptual Art, Japanese Artist, Gelatin Silver Print, Urban Architecture, Meditative Mood, Contemporary Art, Master Photographer, Minimalism, Black and White

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